2019: Blow For PDP As Third Party Rejects Atiku As Consensus Candidate

The National Conscience Party (NCP) has rejected the endorsement of former vice president Atiku Abubakar by Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) as consensus candidate for 2019 election.

NCP Spokesperson Emmanuel Okereke in a statement on Friday called it an affront to the spirit of the alliance.

“Disappointedly today in CUPP, same poor Nigerian masses we all came together to rescue are alarmed as just few elements against the letter and spirit of CUPP purportedly adopted the PDP’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar as a consensus candidate for the February 2019 presidential election.

“This is a rape to the ethos of political alliance viz social re-engineering; an affront not only to the NCP which gave the alliance credence but also to CUPP, therefore must be unfalteringly resisted.